How do I upload my contacts to Hustle?

Hustle's CSV uploads allow admins to easily add contacts to your group so you can start Hustling!

Uploading contacts to a Hustle group

1) Prepare your CSV. All you need to get started is a CSV with the basics: First Name, Last Name, and Phone Number. You may also want to add additional custom fields such external ID, Legislator Name and Legislator Number, Donation Amount, Zip Code, etc. To learn more about custom fields, go here.

4) Hustle will show you a preview of the upload. Be sure to match the dropdown menu of headers with each of the fields in your CSV file. Hustle will detect as many field matches as possible, but do confirm.

5) Select how you want these contacts to be managed by agents. Do you want your agents to be assigned to contacts? This is the right option for relationship-building. Assignments allow your organizers to text a contact from the same phone number for multiple and have longer term conversations. If you need to get a goal out the door ASAP (or if you haven't added agents yet) you can choose to "Leave unassigned for now" and either assign later or create 'first-come-first-served' goals that are not limited to assigned agents.

- During the upload, Hustle will deduplicate double phone numbers so only one contact per phone number exists in each group. If a person has more than one unique phone number, Hustle will create a contact for each mobile phone number.

- If you upload existing phone numbers back into the group, Hustle will still dedupe but will upload any new fresh fields by phone number.

- During the upload Hustle will "scrub" the phone number to tell you if it's a mobile, landline or voip number. You can export contact data from your group and see this data in Column E. Very useful for splitting phone banking and Hustling!